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Millions of children are born every year and millions more parents enter blindly into the arena of parenthood without any knowledge of what they need to do. For fathers especially, this first time leap can be overwhelming a complex and confusing time in their lives. There are many things that need to be learned and many more things that need to be perfected in those early weeks and months and for some it can be nerve-racking to try and figure it all out. This book was written for every father who every wanted to understand those essential basics of starting for the first time in child rearing. You will learn everything starting with your new-born child, including what they will look like, ho...
A funny and charming collection of famous last words.
A funny and charming collection of famous last words.
Songs of protest have been inspiring activists for millennia, and continue to be created, shared, and reworked across musical genres. From the prophet Habakkuk as proto-protest singer, through a broad spectrum of twentieth and twenty-first century artists and diverse faith traditions, Theology and Protest Music gathers compelling contributions that examine Brazilian eschatology, Black liberation and womanism, esoteric Islam in Five Percenter rap, heavy metal as anti-theology, Howard Thurman’s relevance to jazz, Cuban Santería priest Pedrito Martinez’ sacred Batá drumming, as well as theological reflections on Jay-Z, Funkadelic, Marvin Gaye, Sweet Honey in the Rock, and the social justice chorale movement. Those interested in theology and popular culture, as well as scholars of music, social justice, racial identity, LGBTQ+ studies, and gender studies will find new aspects of the broad spectrum of protest music and its diverse spiritual connections. Theology and Protest Music also features invited contributions by pioneering choral activist Catherine Roma and world-renowned performer, composer, and educator Dr. Ysaye Maria Barnwell.
The fix is in ??and award-winning creators James Asmus (Gambit) and Steve Lieber (Superior Foes of Spider-Man) are about to unleash a world of hurt on the world?s worst superhero mis-adventurers! Quantum and Woody have been hyp-mo-tized! But why? And how did these two chuckleheads suddenly become the heroes and idols of millions? A sinister puppet master lays his cards on the table and activates his Manchurian Candidates. Because when the world?s worst superhero team swoops into action?Quantum and Woody must die!
Representations—in visual arts and in fiction—play an important part in our lives and culture. Kendall Walton presents here a theory of the nature of representation, which illuminates its many varieties and goes a long way toward explaining its importance. Drawing analogies to children’s make believe activities, Walton constructs a theory that addresses a broad range of issues: the distinction between fiction and nonfiction, how depiction differs from description, the notion of points of view in the arts, and what it means for one work to be more “realistic” than another. He explores the relation between appreciation and criticism, the character of emotional reactions to literary a...
Eric's Story - Surviving A Son's Suicide is a mother's account of the sudden, unexpected death of her only child. Eric Michael Underwood was a highly successful 27 year-old engineer and actor living in Los Angeles when, in 1995, he took his own life. The book tells the story of his bouts with the depression his parents never knew about, his success as an engineer as well as his budding career as an actor (he was in the movie Forrest Gump with Tom Hanks). It details his mother's struggle to go on living and survive her devastating loss.
Multiple Harvey Award nominee James Asmus (QUANTUM AND WOODY, THE DELINQUENTS) and Eisner Award-winning artist Steve Lieber (Superior Foes of Spider-Man) are here to bring the most talked-about, most award-not-winning-est heroes in comics to a whole new high! Unfortunately, there are a bunch of people that would like to kill them up there. They came. They saw. They pissed off a whole lotta folks! And now a team of mystery vigilantes has singled out the world?s worst superhero team for complete and utter destruction. Their first target: their minds! But who are these all-new enemies? Are Quantum and Woody hitting it off with a sexy duo of cat burglars? And, dear god, what have they done to the Goat? Collecting QUANTUM AND WOODY MUST DIE! #1?4 along with VALIANT-SIZED QUANTUM AND WOODY #1, start reading here as writer James Asmus and artist Steve Lieber bring the most talked-about duo of semi-professional heroes in comics to a whole new high!
Life has never been smoother for Eric Williams, who grew up with his abusive mother, the queen of the sinister Underworld. The Otherworld, his new home, is a realm of peace, felicity, and harmony, everything he has wished for. However, when a series of misfortunes befall his dearest friends, he begins to realize the true colors of his malicious fellow Elders, and his perfect illusion of the utopian Otherworld unravels at the seams. When a surprise invasion from the Underworld ends in an unexpected way, Eric is forced to awaken from the childish dream that has enveloped him in a state of euphoria for over a year and accept the painful truth that threatens to destroy the kingdom he calls home.
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